Garment hanger



March 14, 1944. HElTZMAN 2,343,865

GARMENT HANGER Filed May 12, 1942 N 5190 38 '//EZZZ 72/ By I WWI/10% am Patented Mar. 14, 1944 GARMENT HANGER George Heitzman, Shamokin, Pa.., assignor of onehalf to Willard K. Burd, Shamokin, Pa.

Application May 12, 1942, Serial No. 442,675

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in garment hangers, the principal object in View being to provide a simply constructed device of the character indicated adapted for quickly and easily clamping garments therein, and for sliding attachment to a clothesline, or the like, and looking thereto against accidental detachment therefrom.

Another object is to provide a garment hanger with a suspension device adapted to be looked around, a clothesline or the like and which is convertible into an open hock when desired.

Other and subordinate objects are also comprehended by my invention, all of which, together with the precise nature of my improvements, will be readily understood when the succeeding description and claim are read with reference to the drawing accompanying and forming part of this specification.

In said drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of my improved garment hanger in its preferred embodiment,

Figure 2 is a View in top plan,

Figure 3 is a viewin transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1 and drawn to an enlarged scale, and

Figure 4 is a view in side elevation of the hanger hook opened.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, my improved garment hanger comprises a pair of clamping bars I, 2, substantially rectangular transversely, and suspended from an eyelet-like terminal 3 of a suspension hook 4, by means of a pair of wire-like rods 5 each arching from the ends of one of said bars over the same and having hook-like ends 5 bent around. the ends of said bars I, 2 under the bottom edges thereof and extended, as at I, through said bars, each rod 5, midway of its ends, being formed into a loop 8 passing through the eyelet terminal 3 of the suspension hook 4, whereby said bars I, 2 and rods 5 are swiveled on said hook .for clamping of said bars together side by side and with the rods 5 opposed side by side in slightly spaced relation.

A pair of clamping keepers are provided for clamping the bars I, 2 together each comprising a U-shaped resilient clip 9 bent upon itself to form an elongated loop Ill embracing the rods 5 and slidable along the same toward and from one end of the bars I. 2, each clip further comprising a pair of legs ll adapted to straddle the outer sides of said bars I, 2. The outer sides of the bars I, 2 diverge, relatively, from the top edges thereof so that the legs Il may be wedged down over said sides to frictionally interlock therewith and tension said bars I, 2 toward clamping relation. The rods 5 are formed adjacent the ends of the bars I, 2 with a pair of laterally opposed bends forming notches I2 in which the loops l0 may be located for interlocking with said rods 5 against sliding movement along the same.

As will now be clear, garments interposed between the clampin bars I, 2 may be clamped therebetween by sliding the clips 9 along the rods 5, seating the loops ill in the notches I2, and forcing the legs II of the clips down over said bars I, 2. As best shown in Figures 2 and 3, the loops l9 are sufiiciently long to permit the requisite separative, opening movement of the rods 5 and bars I, 2.

The suspension hook 4 comprises a segment I3 having at one end the eyelet terminal 3 and terminating at its opposite end in a convolutecoil Hi, said hook further comprising an arcuate clasp section I5 having an eyelet end I 6 slidable on the segment I3, the other end of the clasp section I5 being slidably extended through the coil I4 and terminating outwardly of said coil in a catch hook II, the arrangement being such that the clasp section I5 may be slid forwardly along the segment I3 through the coil M to close the hook in which position of the section I5 catch hook I5 may be hooked around the segment I3 behind the eyelet terminal 3. As will be apparent, the clasp section I5 may be slid to open the hook by moving the same in the opposite direction.

When the suspension hook 4 is closed, in the manner described, around a clothesline, the hanger is locked on the line so that it cannot become accidentally detached. However, when said suspension hook 4 is opened, said hook may be used in the usual manner.

A feature of my invention is that the coil I4 is axially offset from the axis of movement of the eyelet end I6 so that when the clasp section I5 is closed it cannot rotate on the segment I3 but must be sprung laterally to hook the catch hook I6 around the segment I 3 whereby said clasp section is yieldingly held in clasping position.

The foregoing will, it is believed, sufiice to impart a clear understanding of my invention without further explanation.

Manifestly, the invention, as described, is susceptible of modification without departing from the inventive concept, and right is herein reserved to such modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is: A garment hanger comprising a pair of clamping bars, a hanger hook, means connecting said barsto said hook for swinging movement thereon into side-by-side clamping relation comprising a pair of bowed rods having the ends thereof connected to the ends of said bars, respectively, said rods arching from said bars, side by side and being provided adjacent the ends thereof with notch forming bends overlying said bars, and means to clamp said bars together comprising a pair of clip-like keepers of resilient wire having loops freely slidable on said rods into said notches to depend therefrom and legs on said keepers for yieldingly straddling said bars.

' GEORGE HEITZMAN. 

